editing

Definition

Changing something that already exists rather than regenerating it from scratch. In image work it means altering a region or attribute while leaving the rest intact; in model editing it means surgically updating specific factual associations stored in the weights. For model editing the hard question is locality — whether the edit sticks, generalizes to paraphrases, and leaves unrelated knowledge undamaged.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: Mi-Ripple — Diagnose First, Then Repair the Ripple That Iterative AI Editing Leaves BehindMi-Ripple: Restoring Images Degraded by Iterative AI Editing
• Paper Walkthrough: AuK — Folding Speech Generation and Editing Into One ModelAuK Technical Report: An Open-Source Foundational Model for Speech Generation and Editing
• Paper Explained: JoyAI-Video-Edit — Autoregressive Diffusion That Keeps Editing 720p Video at ~30 FPS, Without Ever Seeing the FutureJoyAI-Video-Edit: Real-Time Open-Ended Video Editing with Autoregressive Diffusion